TLA-611 Ed & Hum Dev I:Understanding Learner (3 credits)
Students explore a wide variety of developmental approaches to learning, including the development of cognition, emotion, and motivation as they apply to diverse learners. Using an integrative approach to development, they apply key theoretical perspectives in creating a multidimensional model of the learner. Students apply developmental and learning theory to support learning approaches appropriate to their target learning groups. (e.g., elementary, middle, and secondary students, teacher colleagues, clients and staff in professional settings.)
TLA-641 Learning Organization & Social Change (3 credits)
Students draw upon a range of disciplines and theories to examine organizational culture, including patterns of leadership, authority, and communication and their impact on the climate of the organization. They analyze case studies of organizational change, identifying sources of success and failure. Critiquing varied approaches in particular settings, they develop proposals for achieving goals for ongoing growth and improvement.
Prerequisite(s): For LTM students: LTM-641 completed. For SPE students: SPE-641.
TLA-750 Practicum (3 credits)
Students engage in an inquiry process related to their work sites. Working with a community mentor, they implement their proposed plan, gathering data and reflecting upon their process in an ongoing way. Students bring the results of their work-based inquiry projects to a discussion of the larger frameworks of learning, development, and social change. They analyze and interpret the results of their study in relation to the research of other students, while also making links to broader questions. They prepare for the presentation of their inquiry in a conference setting.